Allison McRoberts and Patty O'Connor KEVIN CAN F*** HIMSELF (2021)
online is real
everything online is real. there have been decades of cultural mythologizing about the internet that place it in contrast to reality--the internet is framed as immaterial, as ephemeral. the internet is 'just data', it's weightless and abstract. things taking place on the internet are 'just online', they're not 'really' happening. this isn't true.
of course, there's the elementary fact that many things that are immaterial with no physical form are still real. monetary value is real, even if you cannot find me an atom of it. the german border is real even where it is not physically demarcated. they are real and physical in that they shape real and physical human interactions. but the internet is in fact far more real than that: every single piece of data on the internet exists physically on a disk somewhere as a pattern of magnetic charges. 'the cloud' sounds like it's a weightless and fluffy thing, but 'the cloud' is this:
this is the cloud--a google data center, to be exact. amazon web services is not an immaterial or abstract thing; it is over 26 million square feet of data centers, of physical computers inside physical buildings where data is physically recorded. access to the internet is provided by cables, including the thousands of miles of undersea infrastructure which make the global internet possible. 4G, 5G, wifi, these are all made possible by physical apparatuses sending out radio waves.
all computer infrastructure everywhere is made possible by cobalt and lithium and gallium and so on--mined out of the ground, by an extractive mining industry which exploits the people and resources of the global south. estimates for how much electricity 'the internet' uses vary wildly, but it's at minimum measured in gigawatts--and so coal and nuclear power plants and wind farms and hydroelectric dams and the coal and uranium and bauxite mining which builds them are inseparable from 'the internet'. google programmers do not live in the astral plane, they work from buildings (and outsource work to india) which need to be cleaned and maintained and worked in and driven back and forth from.
youtube videos are 'online' but of course if you film something happening and upload it that thing still really happened. if a physical action, whether that be a terrorist attack or a protest or a sexual hookup or an act of ethic violence, is mediated and planned online, that thing really happens in the real world. the idea of 'just online', this platonic real divorced from a cleanly delineated 'outside' or 'real world' is just wrong. it is wrong in more or less every single way. every program or function your computer has or video or picture or word you see on the computer is the result of people doing actual physical things. you are seeing it by grace of miles of cable and tons and tons of machinery and power plants and the guy who sweeps the floors at the indian IT firm facebook outsources. online is real.
it could mean something, it could mean everything
A very, very gentle reminder that "prev tags" is now completely useless, bc you can no longer click back thru the reblog chain and see the prev tags. You can see the reblog in front of you, and you can find the original post - by itself, completely devoid of context - but you can't click thru to the previous reblog. This is apparently intentional, since I literally emailed support about it - being able to click back thru the reblog chain and being able to see the source post in context on op's blog are fundamental parts of the user experience imo and I am pissed - and their response was basically like yeah we meant to do that but if you want to talk about it you can go to our WIP blog, where the ask is literally only open one day a week and we will completely ignore you.
#i feel the need to mention that you can actually get to the previous reblog#at least on you dashboard#you have to click anywhere except the username on that space above the post itself#edit: i checked the comments. i get it now. you can go to the previous reblog but not to the other's before that one#well fuck
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a poll for curiosity's sake:
feel free to reblog, but please do not go into the reblogs actively seeking out + attacking people with different opinions to you!
#nah i'm fine with Horny Thoughts#but yeah prev tags#i do get annoyed when people are rude towards actors for no reason#the one and only time i remember blocking someone for their tags was when they said that will's actor from st was too old for the role#and needed to be fired#i mean what. that's a 17 yo#polls
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We can’t just kill our brother-in-law. Bibi! Do I wish he was dead? Yeah. He is a piece of shit. But that is not how, you know, that’s not how life, society, works. Okay? You can’t just explode a man.
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Amy once asked me how many miles would I have to go before I could be okay with myself. I thought I’d have to go around the whole world. And I don’t think that any more. I’m okay here.
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➳ “The witcher loved his woman, the sorceress beauty… but that lovable old lutanist won the hearts of that huntress hunter pair. Oh, the Golden One with the golden rules, two warrior belles with all the tools—they showed us we’re all fools. Oh, we’re just fools.” [for @withered-rose-with-thorns]